Throughout the month of August, people all over the world will gather to walk for a cause.

This year, Vicksburg will also be one of those places.

Participants in the Red Carpet City of the South’s first ANCOP Walk Mississippi will have the opportunity to walk across the old U.S. 80 bridge for a global cause: poverty.

“This happens simultaneously all over the place this month,” Zenaida Meer, a coordinator of the event, said. “Hopefully this will happen every year after this year.”

The 3-mile walk across the bridge to Louisiana and back to Vicksburg will take place Saturday, Aug. 20 at 8 a.m.

The ANCOP, Answering the Call of the Poor, is a global mission foundation organized through Couples for Christ, which originated in the Philippines and works to use “families in the Holy Spirit (to renew) the face of the earth,” according to its website.

Couples for Christ Mississippi, which consists of members from Vicksburg and the metro-Jackson area, will host the event as a fundraiser, Meer said.

She said the proceeds from the event, which was first held in 2014 with last year’s event being held in Ridgeland, go to fund the organization’s global mission outreach, mainly funding educational opportunities for underprivileged children around the world, including the Philippines.

“Since Couples for Christ originated in the Philippines, we always go back there,” Meer said. “Though we help others in other places, we want to make sure those there are taken care of.

“The proceeds will go to funding education of the poor but deserving students back home in the Philippines but in other places as well, particularly third world countries.”

Though much of the funds collected by the organization go toward global outreach, the organization does support causes closer to home as well.

“The Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, also received some of the funds that we collected (last year),” she said.

The registration fee is $15 for adults, including a T-shirt for the event, and $10 for children. For more information or to register, contact Meer at 803-738-6252.